Word: manly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...route to his nearest editor (Omaha News-Bee). Nor could he contain himself until he reached the next-nearest Hearst city, Chicago. Instead, he arranged to be met in Kansas City by a representative of that city's daily Star, a most independent un-Hearstlike newspaper. Into the Star man's hands Mr. Hearst delivered a 3,000 word statement entitled: "We Need Laws We can Respect." He requested the Star man explicitly to see that the Star should publish the statement in full...
Faithfully, the Star man transmitted to his chief the Hearst request. Shrewdly, the Star chief smelled a large, shadowy, Hearstlike rat. He saw to it that the Star did not print the Hearst statement as Mr. Hearst had planned. It required a long-distance call from Mr. Hearst's secretary in Chicago before the Star printed the Hearst statement at all. Then the Star chopped the thing up and printed about one-third of it on page 17, next to a comic strip...
There are five different ways of lifting weights. No weight can be considered "lifted" until it is as high as a man can reach. The one-or two-arm "snatch" consists of lifting it with a single motion of one or both hands. The one-or two-arm "clean and jerk" consists of lifting it with one or both hands, first to the chest, then jerking to above the head..The two-arm "military press" is complex. This consists in lifting it to the chest, taking a deep breath, counting two, then slowly raising it above the head...
...snatch. In the one-arm clean and jerk he lifted 198 lb. and then later, feeling yet stronger, he lifted 203½ lb. This did not constitute a record because he did it on his fourth attempt (you only get three tries), and because in Switzerland lives a man who once lifted 230 lb. with one hand...
When Alfred Emanuel Smith was a presidential candidate, many a man and woman voted against him for fear the Catholic Church might meddle with the U. S. government. Last week, New York's Senator Royal Samuel Copeland, a Methodist, charged that the church was meddling with U. S. affairs. But it was the Methodist Church, not the Catholic, to which he referred. Senator Copeland charged that the Methodist Board of Temperance, Prohibition & Public Morals in Washington were lobbyists; that in 1927 they had tried to influence his vote on a prohibition measure.* Said the Senator in an open letter...